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Helpful, healing herbs
28 Mar 2020

Helpful, healing herbs

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Herbs have grown in wild places for millennia, often thriving where other plants struggle to get a foothold. There is surely a herb for every home in Cornwall (windowsills and doorsteps included). Where herbs flower, wildlife thrives. This blog was … Continued

bees, butterflies, Cornwall, garden, gardening, gardening coronavirus, herbs, natural word, wildlife gardening
Invaders
15 Feb 2020

Invaders

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[An old, prizewinning essay with some new photos added. Yes, the Australian flatworms are still here!] The television screen faded. Torch in hand, I ventured out into the moist gloom of a Cornish evening to shut my pet rabbits in … Continued

Australian flatworm, Coenoplana sanguinea, Cornwall, garden, invader, nature, Wildlife, worms
Snowdrops – some sublime, some strange
8 Feb 2020

Snowdrops – some sublime, some strange

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Snowdrops – true natives of much of mainland Europe but garden plants in Britain – have gone wild on a woodland edge near my home. The clumps or even carpets of brilliant white brighten a country walk on even the … Continued

Cornwall, flowers, snowdrops, Tamar Valley, Wildlife
Sharing the fruits of my labours
16 Jan 2020

Sharing the fruits of my labours

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If you grow soft fruit and also garden with wildlife in mind, you face the dilemma of vying for your own fruit with the local wildlife – particularly the bird population – of your garden. My solution has been to … Continued

fruit cage, garden, soft fruit, Wildlife
A meadow in the front garden
16 Dec 2019

A meadow in the front garden

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My patch of front lawn is now being grown as a wildflower meadow, and wildflower meadows have to be managed. This blog describes my new mini meadow and how I prepared it for the winter. As the gales and showers … Continued

autumn, Cornwall, flowers, front garden, gardening, meadow, nature, wildflowers, Wildlife

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